5 t o Chap. lc). AnExpofition upon the Bookof J Q B. Verf. 9. conquerour, riding in triumph over all the pofierity of Adam: but now death hath neither Piing nor fword to ufc again(( belie- vers, it hash nothing of victory over the Saiints it is now but a deep, a fleepüx Chriff, a rclt from labour,a putting offthe rags, the worn rags of mortality, that we may be drefs'd in the robes of glory. The evil of death is rernoved,a.nd that which remains of death (the reparation ofthe foul and body) proves the greateft good to both,it being but a preparatory to their everlafling union. Omneprnüpii- Thirdly, It is argued, That death and corruption were tutu- arum natararn grin- rat to man, becau(è the matterout of which man was made,was til am dying and corruptible ; for that which is made, mutt follow the nature of that principle out of which it is made. The etfet cannot be (fay they) more noble then the cxufe, nor the.fubje4 conflituted, more durable then that . which.goes into its cou- fiitution. To clear up an anfwer to this, we *lull ditfinguifliof a three- fold immortality. I. A primitive, fimple, independent, etfential immortality; this is proper and peculiar to God, in which fen(e the Apotile af- tìrmeth, kit only bath immortality (,i Tim.6. i 6.) 4 There is a derivative, dependant, efi_ntial immortality. Some fubftanccs have no feed of corruptibillity, nor of death in them. Being eitherfcparate from all matter, which is the feat and r rot of corruption, as the Angels, or united to matter, yet fo as not being produced from it, or having any affinity with it, tioo; `sv áv° fuch tire the fouls of men. Wholeman in his creation was not Á ü,o dpw immortal either of there waycs.; a part of man was, but man !!7.&. 8d was riot created immortal : Man was of a middle (late and con- ., ;ham ssr, dition, neither altogether fo mortal, nor altogether immortal, u9dvxr&dix- but capable of either. mac t: a,. There is an immortality by the power or gift, by the mercy P er lutlicc of God. The powerand juflice of God (hail give an im- moi taüty to the bodies of the damned in hell, they (hall ever live a dying life,who were dead all the while they lived. They who have flighted; the mercy of God, flaall be upheld by his power, to endure his jytt{ice to all eternity.;, wicked men would have fin - ncd,with delight for ever upon, the earth, if they could have liv- ed fòr ever upon the earth, and they ¡hail live for ever with pain in hell to flitter for their tin. The power, goodm_fs and mercy oä God, (hall much more give
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